A mathematician's apology /
G.H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C.P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London :
Cambridge University Press,
1992, 1967.
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| Vydání: | Canto edition. |
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| Shrnutí: | G.H. Hardy was one of this century's finest mathematical thinkers, renowned among his contemporaries as a 'real mathematician ... the purest of the pure'. He was also, as C.P. Snow recounts in his Foreword, 'unorthodox, eccentric, radical, ready to talk about anything'. This 'apology', written in 1940 as his mathematical powers were declining, offers a brilliant and engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; when it was first published, Graham Greene hailed it alongside Henry James's notebooks as 'the best account of what it was like to be a creative artist'. C.P. Snow's Foreword gives sympathetic and witty insights into Hardy's life, with its rich store of anecdotes concerning his collaboration with the brilliant Indian mathematician Ramanujan, his aphorisms and idiosyncrasies, and his passion for cricket. This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics and of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times. |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (153 pages) |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 051100737X 9780511007378 9781139644112 1139644114 9780521427067 0521427061 9781107604636 110760463X 9781107387669 1107387663 9781107295599 1107295599 |